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Chien Hung Chen
dblp:163/0827
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Language models and text generation · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation
alignment |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Self-Augmented Preference Alignment for Sycophancy Reduction in LLMs · EMNLP 2025 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › alignment
sycophancy mitigation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Self-Augmented Preference Alignment for Sycophancy Reduction in LLMs · EMNLP 2025 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation
large language model |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Self-Augmented Preference Alignment for Sycophancy Reduction in LLMs · EMNLP 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
reinforcement learning from human feedback · 0.9preference alignment · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Self-Augmented Preference Alignment for Sycophancy Reduction in LLMsabstractSycophancy causes models to produce answers that cater to user expectations rather than providing truthful responses.Sycophantic behavior in models can erode user trust by creating a perception of dishonesty or bias.This lack of authenticity may lead users to question the reliability and objectivity of the system's responses.Although Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is effective in aligning models with human preferences, previous studies have observed that it can simultaneously amplify sycophantic behavior.However, these studies primarily focused on proprietary models and employed indirect analysis to demonstrate the influence of human feedback.Our study focuses on sycophancy in open-source models, which are more reproducible and transparent for research.We investigated the impact of human feedback on sycophancy by directly comparing models aligned with human feedback to those not aligned.To address sycophancy, we proposed assessing the user's expected answer rather than ignoring it.Consequently, we developed the Sycophancy Answer Assessment (SAA) dataset 1 and introduced Self-Augmented Preference Alignment, demonstrating that these methods effectively enhance the model's assessment ability and significantly reduce sycophancy across tasks. Chien Hung Chen, Hen-Hsen Huang, Hsin-Hsi Chen |
EMNLP | 1 |